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Colosseum Tickets - Info in the Source Code?

Just an interesting item I found as I'm attempting to identify when Colosseum tickets from the CoopCulture website for Belvedere and the Arena are released for the remainder of the 2018 year...

These details appear to be changing regularly, but I was able to find the info below in the source code of the website. The text is sitting there, however, it has a property of "display:none". This means that if you were viewing the website the information is NOT posted, but the text has been loaded to the site. I'm not sure if it was shown on a previous date or there is a plan to change the display property in the near future - that's up to whomever is in charge of their website (which, tbh, drives me a bit batty).

The "hidden" text which may or MAY NOT be accurate states,

"OCTOBER – DECEMBER
On Monday 20th August at 9:00 a.m. it will be possible to book tickets with scheduled entrance time for the Colosseum, quarterly availability, for October, November and December 2018. Differently from what it’s now displayed, the items will be: COLOSSEUM TIME ENTRANCE- COLOSSEUM STERN TIME ENTRANCE – COLOSSEUM TICKETS WITH ENTRANCE TIME FOR SCHOOLS
On Monday 20th August at 9:00 a.m. it will be possible to book for the underground and belvedere tours, quarterly availability, for October, November and December 2018. The items will be: UNDERGROUND TIME ENTRANCE and BELVEDERE TIME ENTRANCE.
On Monday 3rd September at 9:00 a.m. it will be possible to book tickets with scheduled entrance time for the Colosseum, monthly availability, for October 2018. The additional availabilities will flow into the items COLOSSEUM TIME ENTRANCE- COLOSSEUM STERN TIME ENTRANCE.
On the same date and time, it will be possible to book for the underground and belvedere tours, monthly availability, for October 2018. The additional availabilities will flow into the items UNDERGROUND TIME ENTRANCE and BELVEDERE TIME ENTRANCE."

I apologize for the capital letters - not my styling choice!

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This info (and more) is under the "News" section of the Coopculture homepage. It's the first entry: click on the [++] sign for the entire schedule.

https://www.coopculture.it/en/

On the page for the Colosseum, if you scroll about 1/3rd of the way through the info on the righthand side to "GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS", the 3rd paragraph states, "you can refer to the news section on the website homepage to be acquainted with the reservations opening dates."

https://www.coopculture.it/en/colosseo-e-shop.cfm

I swear, they've made more changes to the website this past year than I've changed my socks! :O)

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Omg, THANK YOU Kathy. I've been looking and looking and looking - and I'm really usually quite good at navigating websites!

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LOL! You're welcome!
There is SO much info crammed into the Colosseum section that it's really easy to go all cross-eyed getting through it all. They keep revamping the thing to maybe make it more user-friendly but, well, it's evidently a work in process! 😳

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This doesn't look like code. It looks like text to me. Perhaps difference w/ out distinction for some, but it's clearly "clear text." In the tech world, we'd not show you the 'code' if it were truly code.

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The text (not code) is on the website. The OP just missed where it was.

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@mdtravel - As this is not a tech forum I took out all tags. I mentioned it was found "in" the source code, not the code itself. I figure this forum is for the travel info only.

I had located it on a page in which there was a display:none, so I was not originally finding the info I was looking for. @Kathy was able to assist me in finding where the same information was actually displayed on the site (on a different page).